And yet, I post under my nick here. Oh Your God! I am the ACTUAL Anonymous Coward but I am hiding behind a nick name. Wow, this is just mind shuttering! Am I hiding from myself I wonder?
I believe that this story is very informative and that we all will get very insightful comments from everyone involved, and some of the posts will be funny, while others may be somewhat redundant, however there always will be a few underrated and overrated commentators, but it is all good as long as it does not lead to any flamebait here. Of-course Trolls are welcome to join the conversation, just as per usual arrangement.
Oh, and the Anonymous Cowards... I see you, I see you and your reflections in the Moon.
Big Brother does not tolerate competition. It also does not like giving people ability to see what Big Brother sees, I wouldn't be surprised if they forbade Google from doing this altogether at some point.
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Yeah, funny, get back to us when you find a flatworm that is able to play the system so well, that it first can use the fact that the government is corrupt to buy the politicians to get Free (0% interest) money from the Fed, then make sure that laws are such that it is not illegal to gamble with the money, then set up a bunch of bad debts and bet against them and to make hundreds of millions personally, then when the banks fail, get the dumb ass 'public servants' to bail out the banks and take billions more in bonuses. And they keep the money at the end while the public gets stuck with an insurmountable amount in debt...
No no no, bankers already have multiple heads, some of them work in the governments, some work in the Fed, some work as various lobbyists and some 'run' the banks. Please, give credit where credit is due, those guys are brilliant at taking the money from you.
In 1998 I did this while working for Davinci tech in Toronto working on Coke Canada Intranet accounting site (remember, the Intranet was the buzzword of the time?) IFrames + javascript refreshing them and populating parent windows / frames.
There is NOTHING new in programming technology and hasn't been for a longest time. Really, in 16 years I can only truly say that bit-torrent was somehow a unique/new idea, but I think even that wasn't that radical, just the protocol was new.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
The accusations were made by Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, in a signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantánamo detainee. It is the first time that such allegations have been made by a senior member of the Bush Administration.
Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell's chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was "politically impossible to release them".
General Powell, who left the Bush Administration in 2005, angry about the misinformation that he unwittingly gave the world when he made the case for the invasion of Iraq at the UN, is understood to have backed Colonel Wilkerson's declaration.
Colonel Wilkerson, a long-time critic of the Bush Administration's approach to counter-terrorism and the war in Iraq, claimed that the majority of detainees -- children as young as 12 and men as old as 93, he said -- never saw a US soldier when they were captured. He said that many were turned over by Afghans and Pakistanis for up to $5,000. Little or no evidence was produced as to why they had been taken.
He also claimed that one reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because "the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were". This was "not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]".
Referring to Mr Cheney, Colonel Wilkerson, who served 31 years in the US Army, asserted: "He had absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent... If hundreds of innocent individuals had to suffer in order to detain a handful of hardcore terrorists, so be it."
He alleged that for Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld "innocent people languishing in Guantánamo for years was justified by the broader War on Terror and the small number of terrorists who were responsible for the September 11 attacks".
He added: "I discussed the issue of the Guantánamo detainees with Secretary Powell. I learnt that it was his view that it was not just Vice-President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld, but also President Bush who was involved in all of the Guantánamo decision making."
Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld, Colonel Wilkerson said, deemed the incarceration of innocent men acceptable if some genuine militants were captured, leading to a better intelligence picture of Iraq at a time when the Bush Administration was desperate to find a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, "thus justifying the Administration's plans for war with that country".
He signed the declaration in support of Adel Hassan Hamad, a Sudanese man who was held at Guantánamo Bay from March 2003 until December 2007. Mr Hamad claims that he was tortured by US agents while in custody and yesterday filed a damages action against a list of American officials.
Defenders of Guantánamo said that detainees began to be released as early as September 2002, nine months after the first prisoners were sent to the jail at the US naval base in Cuba. By the time Mr Bush left office more than 530 detainees had been freed.
A spokesman for Mr Bush said of Colonel Wilkerson's allegations: "We are not going to have any comment on that." A former associate to Mr Rumsfeld said that Mr Wilkerson's assertions were completely untrue.
The truth is that terrorists are in US government. Government that knowingly hold innocent people as prisoners and tortures them in prison for eight (8) years can easily be considered terrorist government in itself, especially given how many of the tortured prisoners were just civilians, sold to the US government by Afghans for 5K a head, probably some were competitors in some trade, others may have had lovely wives, who knows. At the time of Bush and Cheney, if you were in Afghanistan and didn't like someone or wanted something that belonged to someone else, you could kill two birds with the same stone: get rid of the problem (the person) and make 5K while doing it.
Terrorists won, but they are closer than you think.
The one funny thing about it is that SEC consists of mainly lawyers. That's right, not accountants, not economists, not inspectors but lawyers. This is on purpose, because they are just another captured/corrupt government organization that does not do its job. Example of them not doing its job is the story from Harry Markopolos, who by chance figured out the scheme Madoff was running and brought it to SEC's attention with all the evidence but they never did anything about it.
So they are incompetent people, who are working there not because they can do something, but specifically because they do nothing at all and this is a situation created on purpose by the system, it's a captured environment, SEC is not supposed to do anything that would hurt people who should really be afraid of the SEC.
So in that environment what are the workers there supposed to do? Anything at all except their actual jobs, so obviously nobody is going to blow a whistle on them surfing porn. Porn? Please, be my guest, as long as you don't investigate actual fraud cases. Again, I guess the only surprising thing is that they are lawyers.
I am sticking with my almost 5 year old Dell Latitude D810 because I have 15.4" 1920X1200 WUXGA screen on it. This 'laptop' is big and heavy, but the screen and the keyboard are great for programming.
it is called competitive bids, and preferred corporations get preferred treatment in every way, from getting free money to getting cheaper T-Bills. Then, of-course, you can bid on the T-Bills if you are a foreign entity through a bidding house, which would sell to you whatever it is that is for sale either by government or by private institutions. Good luck getting the real price, you'll always pay more.
No no no, you sell them at higher prices of course, through bidding wars. The reason why you can get them in the first place is because of the free money that is given to you, and so you buy huge amounts with discounts. Discounts are the key and you get discounts by having lots of money. Free money.
You can because you are a preferred corporations who is getting a ridiculously low interest rate on the cash that you are paying for the T-Bills. All you need to do is sell them to someone who is not getting the same interest rate for the short money - cash, and then make a percent or two in profit. Wow, what a concept.
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Do you work for the Home Land Security department?
I have a message of my own to the pope.
Fuck you, pope.
Fuck you in your ass, fuck you in your mouth-hole with a horse dick. Fuck all of your priests, each one separately and as the group-cult.
Fuck your religion too, by the way.
Hell, and whose fault is it? Whose fault is it, MoonBuggy 611105?
African or European unit?
And yet, I post under my nick here. Oh Your God! I am the ACTUAL Anonymous Coward but I am hiding behind a nick name. Wow, this is just mind shuttering! Am I hiding from myself I wonder?
My god, your logic is impeccable!
I believe that this story is very informative and that we all will get very insightful comments from everyone involved, and some of the posts will be funny, while others may be somewhat redundant, however there always will be a few underrated and overrated commentators, but it is all good as long as it does not lead to any flamebait here. Of-course Trolls are welcome to join the conversation, just as per usual arrangement.
Oh, and the Anonymous Cowards... I see you, I see you and your reflections in the Moon.
Big Brother does not tolerate competition. It also does not like giving people ability to see what Big Brother sees, I wouldn't be surprised if they forbade Google from doing this altogether at some point.
Yeah, funny, get back to us when you find a flatworm that is able to play the system so well, that it first can use the fact that the government is corrupt to buy the politicians to get Free (0% interest) money from the Fed, then make sure that laws are such that it is not illegal to gamble with the money, then set up a bunch of bad debts and bet against them and to make hundreds of millions personally, then when the banks fail, get the dumb ass 'public servants' to bail out the banks and take billions more in bonuses. And they keep the money at the end while the public gets stuck with an insurmountable amount in debt...
No no no, bankers already have multiple heads, some of them work in the governments, some work in the Fed, some work as various lobbyists and some 'run' the banks. Please, give credit where credit is due, those guys are brilliant at taking the money from you.
New, as in the concept is new, the principles are new and unique and weren't done before in some other incarnation.
I consider bit-torrent protocol to be such a new unique thing as the latest example.
Spare your pity :)
Nothing has been happening in programming that is new in any way for decades now, I mean it and I welcome a single real example to the contrary.
In 1998 I did this while working for Davinci tech in Toronto working on Coke Canada Intranet accounting site (remember, the Intranet was the buzzword of the time?) IFrames + javascript refreshing them and populating parent windows / frames.
There is NOTHING new in programming technology and hasn't been for a longest time. Really, in 16 years I can only truly say that bit-torrent was somehow a unique/new idea, but I think even that wasn't that radical, just the protocol was new.
No, it's up.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
The accusations were made by Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, in a signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantánamo detainee. It is the first time that such allegations have been made by a senior member of the Bush Administration.
Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell's chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was "politically impossible to release them".
General Powell, who left the Bush Administration in 2005, angry about the misinformation that he unwittingly gave the world when he made the case for the invasion of Iraq at the UN, is understood to have backed Colonel Wilkerson's declaration.
Colonel Wilkerson, a long-time critic of the Bush Administration's approach to counter-terrorism and the war in Iraq, claimed that the majority of detainees -- children as young as 12 and men as old as 93, he said -- never saw a US soldier when they were captured. He said that many were turned over by Afghans and Pakistanis for up to $5,000. Little or no evidence was produced as to why they had been taken.
He also claimed that one reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because "the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were". This was "not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]".
Referring to Mr Cheney, Colonel Wilkerson, who served 31 years in the US Army, asserted: "He had absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent ... If hundreds of innocent individuals had to suffer in order to detain a handful of hardcore terrorists, so be it."
He alleged that for Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld "innocent people languishing in Guantánamo for years was justified by the broader War on Terror and the small number of terrorists who were responsible for the September 11 attacks".
He added: "I discussed the issue of the Guantánamo detainees with Secretary Powell. I learnt that it was his view that it was not just Vice-President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld, but also President Bush who was involved in all of the Guantánamo decision making."
Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld, Colonel Wilkerson said, deemed the incarceration of innocent men acceptable if some genuine militants were captured, leading to a better intelligence picture of Iraq at a time when the Bush Administration was desperate to find a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, "thus justifying the Administration's plans for war with that country".
He signed the declaration in support of Adel Hassan Hamad, a Sudanese man who was held at Guantánamo Bay from March 2003 until December 2007. Mr Hamad claims that he was tortured by US agents while in custody and yesterday filed a damages action against a list of American officials.
Defenders of Guantánamo said that detainees began to be released as early as September 2002, nine months after the first prisoners were sent to the jail at the US naval base in Cuba. By the time Mr Bush left office more than 530 detainees had been freed.
A spokesman for Mr Bush said of Colonel Wilkerson's allegations: "We are not going to have any comment on that." A former associate to Mr Rumsfeld said that Mr Wilkerson's assertions were completely untrue.
The associate said the former D
This video shows the Aral sea disappearing. This blog has photos from the site as it was in 2008.
So some 'civil' engineers think that dykes can generate all that power?
Maybe the same should be suggested to the mayor of Toronto, imagine all the power they could generate there during a pride week!
The truth is that terrorists are in US government. Government that knowingly hold innocent people as prisoners and tortures them in prison for eight (8) years can easily be considered terrorist government in itself, especially given how many of the tortured prisoners were just civilians, sold to the US government by Afghans for 5K a head, probably some were competitors in some trade, others may have had lovely wives, who knows. At the time of Bush and Cheney, if you were in Afghanistan and didn't like someone or wanted something that belonged to someone else, you could kill two birds with the same stone: get rid of the problem (the person) and make 5K while doing it.
Terrorists won, but they are closer than you think.
How dare you, using the word 'loose' correctly like that on /.? Astounding arrogance, who do you think you are?!
Thank you, captain obvious and humorless, I salute you and award you the Redundant Cross of Missing The Point.
Are you one of those 'unschooled' kids in America?
Hold on, you have just spent time reading about this on /. and commenting, but you could have been outside, helping the needy!
The one funny thing about it is that SEC consists of mainly lawyers. That's right, not accountants, not economists, not inspectors but lawyers. This is on purpose, because they are just another captured/corrupt government organization that does not do its job. Example of them not doing its job is the story from Harry Markopolos, who by chance figured out the scheme Madoff was running and brought it to SEC's attention with all the evidence but they never did anything about it.
So they are incompetent people, who are working there not because they can do something, but specifically because they do nothing at all and this is a situation created on purpose by the system, it's a captured environment, SEC is not supposed to do anything that would hurt people who should really be afraid of the SEC.
So in that environment what are the workers there supposed to do? Anything at all except their actual jobs, so obviously nobody is going to blow a whistle on them surfing porn. Porn? Please, be my guest, as long as you don't investigate actual fraud cases. Again, I guess the only surprising thing is that they are lawyers.
You have a pixel and wires and black? All I have is this stupid quantum particle, it's hard to locate, but at least I know the direction.
1600x1200 in 4x3? Meh.
I am sticking with my almost 5 year old Dell Latitude D810 because I have 15.4" 1920X1200 WUXGA screen on it. This 'laptop' is big and heavy, but the screen and the keyboard are great for programming.
it is called competitive bids, and preferred corporations get preferred treatment in every way, from getting free money to getting cheaper T-Bills. Then, of-course, you can bid on the T-Bills if you are a foreign entity through a bidding house, which would sell to you whatever it is that is for sale either by government or by private institutions. Good luck getting the real price, you'll always pay more.
No no no, you sell them at higher prices of course, through bidding wars. The reason why you can get them in the first place is because of the free money that is given to you, and so you buy huge amounts with discounts. Discounts are the key and you get discounts by having lots of money. Free money.
You can because you are a preferred corporations who is getting a ridiculously low interest rate on the cash that you are paying for the T-Bills. All you need to do is sell them to someone who is not getting the same interest rate for the short money - cash, and then make a percent or two in profit. Wow, what a concept.